I’ve only met a few ex-Royal Marines, but they each impressed me greatly. I had the pleasure of adventuring with one a few days in Nepal (he was on my raft crew) and also interacting with him back in the capital city. Thus I am also reminded of this poem I [...]
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Soldier and sailor, too
Posted in Other people's thoughts, Poetry on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The road not taken
Posted in Other people's thoughts, Poetry on November 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
from Robert Frost:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for [...]
Departure
Posted in Poetry on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Open door for me
Alchemy of the Silk Road
Himalayan dreams
μιριαμ
Posted in Poetry on October 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Alone in the bitter sea,
of thought and care; borne
yet with His wind; free
to move. Take this thorn,
Sir, if it please you.
Haiku
Posted in Poetry on October 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
After dancing more
Some joy, some somberness too
Numenous echo.
Nursing Haiku
Posted in Poetry on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sound of beeping pump
Strong odor wafts down to me
End of shift approaches
It’s sort of your business, but not really..
Posted in Poetry on July 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have been strongly attracted to two people this time around single, and as it happens I wrote poetry about each of them. This is out of about 20 different people that I have “gone out with” in one sense or the other.
Here is poetry about one of them:
A sonnet about someone I knew….
April [...]
Lamentation
Posted in Poetry on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lamentation
We in Sardis, the weary, we strive, as you
also do. We know Him, too; we do not fail Him
in our state as men alone. Our love is true
for Him. We contest world and flesh, no whim
animates our life with God. But when you
gather in His name you forget these black sheep
you wish to change. Point [...]
Chasing the numinous
Posted in Poetry on May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From an old blog.
Chasing the Numinous
If you turn your head to see it, then “poof!“
it is gone. You might be striking a man,
looking through a ’scope; or strutting.. “shooof“
down the floor in the best embrace. Plan
to find it, I say, and ha! This life’s crapshoot
will look normal like it always does. But catch
a glimpse of [...]
Erotic Poetry
Posted in Poetry on May 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Paul Coughlin says that Christian songwriters need to “take the gloves off” and treat the Song of Solomon as the masculine love poetry that it is, without “spiritualizing” it. I agree. I cannot write either music or song; but I can come up with good verse from time to time, [...]
